Where Art + Flight Connect
CONNECTING ART WITH AEROSPACE HISTORY
Art+Flight offered sculpture, painting, photography, installation, and new media, to realize our feelings, enhance our perceptions, and remind us of the awe and joy of flight through the materiality of art.
Exhibit closed January 7, 2024.
Nina Vichayapai
Gallo Kelsey
EXPLORE THE ARTWORK
Preview dozens of artworks in all mediums by over 30 artists, including an Artist-in-Residence, three newly commissioned murals, a juried group show and an installation drawn from the Museum’s art collection.
A fantastical atmosphere where aircraft and elements are infused with colorful schematics and shifting scenery.
Vasquez’s inspiration for choosing these icons comes from flight and more importantly, the feeling of freedom. The feeling that comes with flight and the environmental connection to it.
Artist Nina Vichayapai explores the intersection between humans, the environment, survival, and innovation.
A colorful, motivational poster series that took inspiration from the psychedelic art of the 1960s.
A collection of sounds representing milestone events in the history of aviation, space exploration, and popular aviation-themed music broadcasted by speakers strategically placed along the length of the T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial bridge.
Ever since we’ve be going into space, we’ve been leaving debris behind. Aura is a figurative map depicting the scale of human-made space junk that orbits Earth.
MEET THE ARTISTS
VIEW ALL
SKY HOPINKA
SKY HOPINKA
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) is a filmmaker and visual artist born and raised in Ferndale, Washington.
RIK ALLEN
RIK ALLEN
Rik Allen is a glass sculptor who has based his studio practice in the Pacific Northwest since the 1990s. Allen’s work is recognizable for his whimsical depictions of machinery and the artist’s distinctive metallic treatment of surface textures.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Kevin McCarthy is a multimedia painter who has been based in the Seattle area since 1996. McCarthy combines artistic lessons from the past, and technology from the present to create visualizations of other worlds.
GREGORY BLACKSTOCK
GREGORY BLACKSTOCK
Gregory Blackstock (1943-2023) was a Seattle-based artist who specialized in hand-drawn art cataloguing the world around him.
ISKRA JOHNSON
ISKRA JOHNSON
Iskra Johnson is a multi-media explorer of the industrial landscape, using photography, painting, and new media printmaking to express the beauty of purpose in the design of useful things.
JESSICA DOLENCE
JESSICA DOLENCE
Jessica Dolence is a Seattle-based artist and designer interested in digital decoration and ornamentation in relationship to CyberFeminism and virtual interior desi
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:
HARRIET SALMON
Harriet Salmon is a practicing artist and arts professional based in the Seattle area. Salmon’s work addressed how we’ve historically reshaped nature and how it’s been viewed, manipulated, and consumed culturally.
FREEDOM'S THREADS
JEFFREY STENBOM
Surrounded by the stories, aircraft, and artifacts from World War II, artist Jeffrey Stenbom pays tribute to those who have served in the U.S. military with his piece, Freedom’s Threads.
Thank You to Our Partners
